Economic Review 2017

State Planning Board, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

The Economic Review 2017 includes recent data, policies and programmes of the Government departments. It provides an insight into the development strategies of various sectors, the performance achieved under the plan schemes and the issues to be addressed in the coming years.

Districts at a Glance

Sl.No. Items TVM KLM PTA ALP KTM IDK EKM TSR PLK MLP KKD WYD KNR KSD TOTAL
1 Area 2192 2491 2637 1414 2208 4358 3068 3032 4480 3550 2344 2131 2966 1992 38863
2 Forest Cover (sq Km) * 1317 1402 1742 112 883 3770 706 1125 1761 1475 1052 1699 1338 857 19239
3 Population (in lakhs) 2011 33.01 26.35 11.97 21.28 19.75 11.09 32.82 31.21 28.1 41.13 30.86 8.17 25.23 13.07 334.04
Rural 15.3 14.48 10.66 9.8 14.09 10.56 10.47 10.24 21.31 22.95 10.14 7.86 8.82 7.99 174.67
Male 7.25 6.81 5 4.65 6.93 5.27 5.18 4.88 10.31 10.95 4.85 3.86 4.26 3.88 84.08
Female 8.05 7.67 5.66 5.15 7.16 5.29 5.29 5.36 11.01 12 5.29 4 4.56 4.11 90.6
Per cent Decadal Growth (2001-2011) -28.6 -31.7 -4 -34.2 -14.8 -1.4 -35.7 -52 -5.7 -29.8 -43 -4.6 -26.3 -17.7 -25.9
Urban 17.72 11.87 1.32 11.48 5.66 0.51 22.34 20.96 6.77 18.17 20.72 0.31 16.41 5.09 159.33
Male 8.57 5.66 0.62 5.48 2.76 0.25 11.01 9.92 3.28 8.65 9.86 0.15 7.56 2.41 76.18
Female 9.15 6.21 0.7 6 2.9 0.26 11.33 11.04 3.49 9.52 10.86 0.16 8.85 2.68 83.15
Per cent Decadal Growth (2001-2011) 62.3 154.8 6.3 84.8 88.6 -9.6 51.3 149.7 89.8 410.2 88.2 6.6 35.3 117.8 92.8
Density 1508 1061 452 1504 895 255 1072 1031 627 1157 1316 384 852 657 860
Fishermen Population (in no.) 164883 123100 2073 167794 24420 691 133387 90306 2534 82044 106613 230 60208 43342 1001625
SC population as % of Total Population 11.3 12.5 13.7 9.5 7.8 13.1 8.2 10.4 14.4 7.5 6.5 4.0 3.3 4.1 9.1
ST population as % of Total Population 0.8 0.4 0.7 0.3 1.1 5.0 0.5 0.3 1.7 0.6 0.5 18.5 1.6 3.7 1.5
4 Literacy rate (2011)
Male 94.16 95.83 97.7 97.9 97.17 94.84 97.14 96.98 92.27 95.78 97.57 92.84 97.54 93.93 96.1
Female 90.89 91.95 96.26 94.8 95.67 89.59 94.27 93.85 84.99 91.55 93.16 85.94 93.57 86.13 92.1
5 Per cent of dropouts 2017-18
Lower Primary 0.22 0.10 0.07 0.09 0.29 0.55 0.21 0.08 0.29 0.13 0.26 0.19 0.15 0.38 0.20
Upper Primary 0.06 0.08 0.05 0.07 0.09 0.26 0.05 0.03 0.13 0.06 0.11 0.58 0.15 0.21 0.11
High School 0.09 0.14 0.09 0.12 0.28 0.33 0.19 0.44 0.43 0.13 0.18 2.80 0.50 0.64 0.33
6 GSVA 2015-16 (Quick)
GSVA at basic prices ( in lakh) 4311759 3825637 1218492 3069069 2627009 1485762 5491752 4343482 3034377 4144456 3633201 802474 3027512 1443907 42458889
Share in per cent
Primary 8 10 24 6 14 30 9 8 16 10 8 22 10 20 11
Secondary 27 26 24 31 21 19 22 23 25 25 30 22 31 27 26
Tertiary 65 64 52 63 65 51 69 69 59 65 62 56 59 53 63
7 Production of Rice in Kerala (16-17) in tonnes 3069 2396 8959 102439 48567 1631 10694 57470 144275 17189 2938 20646 10623 6216 437112
8 Area under irrigation (2017) in Hectre 7594 5282 5184 38900 13424 42177 21748 61676 68288 26123 4650 11976 14870 55869 377761
9 Number of Commercial Banks 725 390 387 378 501 176 999 733 425 448 446 121 388 220 6337
10 CD ratio 60.14 64.4 25.24 43.96 50.58 107.37 81.98 50.98 60.47 53.83 67.23 115.91 49.72 75.23 59.71
11 Registered SSI / MSME 15-16 36112 19204 12015 19634 25709 5879 36764 34441 19972 15868 20956 4329 14253 7865 273001
12 Length of roads ** (km) 2557.74 2202.87 2031.37 1472.33 3456.21 2867.37 3085.28 2064.22 2184.69 2680.15 2454.65 1029.31 2265.24 1460.66 31812.1
13 No. of Motor Vehicles 1401090 778218 461630 762880 690309 219535 1675199 1149999 744908 998935 1016328 156216 666523 308267 11030037
14 Tourist arrivals 2015
Foreign
(in no.)		 383608 8520 1620 78049 49513 50366 407653 10133 2385 19769 12649 7067 5264 1823 1038419
Domestic
(in no.)		 2030384 298297 134466 315466 477950 752478 3073159 2721174 512272 471028 884477 586146 632332 282906 13172535

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